Our Agatha goes digging where she shouldn't, in this third Agatha Raisin mystery, from 1994. She is taken aback when she finds a new woman ensconced in the affections of her attractive bachelor neighbor James Lacey. Worse, the beautiful Mary Fortune is superior in every way, especially when it comes to gardening, a deficiency Agatha feels most acutely with Carsely Garden Open Day looming. So when Mary is discovered dead—planted upside down in a pot—Agatha seizes the moment and immediately starts yanking up village secrets by their roots and digging the dirt on the hapless victim. But Agatha has an awkward secret too. Perceptively identified by the St. Petersburg Times as a "glorious cross between Miss Marple, Auntie Mame, and Lucille Ball, with a tad of pit bull tossed in," Agatha Raisin has won legions of fans since her first foray into crime-solving in Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death. M.C. Beaton gives us the adventures of a cranky middle-aged woman who has a knack for stumbling across mysteries in the picturesque English village that she has made her home.